The (Now-Overrated) ILX Top 100 Films of the 2000s Poll Results

yeah, love the palette in tears of the black tiger

ILX TOP 100 FILMS OF THE 2000s BALLOTS

re: pop abortion movies, none of them portray them like the fun quirky picnic that Juno makes teen pregnancy sound like, though 4 months comes close as a sort of madcap, we're getting to Wallyworld by any means necessary adventure.

re: shattered glass -- if there's a best star wars prequel poll, i hope this wins!

damn, Mean Girls and Election were so close. I had been convinced that the latter would place since everyone kept bigging it up.

by everyone, i mean the same 5 people

thanks a lot for this

ouch Mulholland Drive is loved 2000 times as much as Tears of the Black Tiger.

thanx omar. great stuff.

also, just for the record: Children of Men blows, what the fuck is the matter with you people.

and in summary:

100. Morvern Callar (204 pts, 13 votes)
99. The Piano Teacher (208 pts, 9 votes)
98. Dogville (208.5 pts, 8 votes)
97. Happy-Go-Lucky (210.5 pts, 11 votes)
96. High Fidelity (214 pts, 10 votes)
95. Capturing the Friedmans (215 pts, 13 votes, 1 first)
94. Napoleon Dynamite (215.5 pts, 10 votes)
93. Sideways (216 pts, 12 votes)
92. Tropical Malady (219 pts, 8 votes, 1 first)
91. Talk to Her (220 pts, 10 votes)
90. Together (220.5 pts, 9 votes, 1 first)
89. The Lives of Others (221 pts, 12 votes, 1 first)
88. Memories of Murder (222 pts, 10 votes)
87. Minority Report (223.5 pts, 14 votes)
86. All the Real Girls (224.5 pts, 12 votes)
85. Almost Famous (225 pts, 11 votes, 1 first)
84. Finding Nemo (226.5 pts, 13 votes)
83. Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (231 pts, 13 votes)
82. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (231.5 pts, 13 votes)
81. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (236 pts, 11 votes)
80. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (237 pts, 10 votes)
79. Team America: World Police (237.5 pts, 8 votes)
78. 28 Days Later (239 pts, 12 votes)
77. The Squid and the Whale (242 pts, 13 votes, 1 first)
76. In the Loop (246.5 pts, 13 votes)
75. Y Tu Mama Tambien (250.5 pts, 12 votes)
74. In Bruges (251 pts, 14 votes)
73. The Triplets of Belleville (253 pts, 10 votes)
72. Amélie (259.5 pts, 14 votes)
71. The 25th Hour (261 pts, 12 votes, 1 first)
70. Ratatouille (263 points, 13 votes)
69. Far From Heaven (266 points, 13 votes)
68. Elephant (267 points, 12 votes, 1 first place)
67. Synecdoche, New York (267.5 points, 13 votes)
66. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (274 points, 17 votes)
65. Kung Fu Hustle (278.5 points, 16 votes, 1 first place)
64. Kings and Queen (282 points, 10 votes)
63. Wet Hot American Summer (289 points, 15 votes)
62. Borat (295 points, 16 votes, 1 first place)
61. Audition (296 points, 14 votes, 1 first place)
60. Sexy Beast (298.5 points, 15 votes, 1 first place)
59. The Host (305 points, 13 votes)
58. You Can Count On Me (308 points, 12 votes)
57. Brick (309.5 points, 12 votes, 1 first place)
56. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (313 points, 12 votes)
55. Munich (319 points, 15 votes)
54. Miami Vice (338 points, 12 votes)
53. Before Sunset (343 points, 13 votes)
52. Punch-Drunk Love (347 points, 13 votes)
51. Eastern Promises (348 points, 16 votes)
50. I'm Not There (359 points, 14 votes, 1 first place)
49. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (362 points, 16 votes)
48. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (364 points, 16 votes)
47. Best In Show (366 points, 16 votes)
46. Up (374 points, 18 votes)
45. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (376 points, 18 votes)
44. Oldboy (378 points, 18 votes, 1 first place)
43. Gosford Park (379 points, 18 votes)
42. The Hurt Locker (383.5 points, 20 votes)
41. The Dark Knight (385.5 points, 21 votes, 1 first place)
40. The Bourne Identity (406.5 points, 16 votes)
39. A Serious Man (416.5 points, 18 votes)
38. 24 Hour Party People (418.5 points, 24 votes)
37. A History of Violence (423.5 points, 24 votes)
36. Brokeback Mountain (425.5 points, 20 votes)
35. Bad Santa (433 points, 20 votes)
34. The Bourne Supremacy (437 points, 17 votes)
33. Rachel Getting Married (442.5 points, 15 votes)
32. The New World (444.5 points, 15 votes)
31. Battle Royale (450 points, 19 votes)
30. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (452 points, 21 votes)
29. Shaun of the Dead (453.5 points, 24 votes)
28. Pan's Labyrinth (456 points, 20 votes)
27. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (469.5 points, 21 votes)
26. American Psycho (473 points, 21 votes)
25. Superbad (483.5 points, 24 votes)
24. The Departed (485.5 points, 26 votes)
23. Donnie Darko (486 points, 24 votes, 1 first place)
22. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (519 points, 22 votes, 1 first place)
21. The Incredibles (524.5 points, 24 votes, 1 first place)
20. Caché (536 points, 21 votes)
19. Adaptation (545.5 points, 27 votes)
18. Memento (546 points, 30 votes)
17. Ghost World (554 points, 21 votes)
16. Lost in Translation (597.5 points, 28 votes)
15. Let the Right One In (627 points, 29 votes)
14. In the Mood For Love (667 points, 23 votes, 2 first place)
13. Inland Empire (696 points, 25 votes, 1 first place)
12. Grizzly Man (696.5 points, 32 votes, 2 first place)
11. The Royal Tenenbaums (730 points, 29 votes)
10. City of God (777.5 points, 32 votes, 1 first place)
9. Zodiac (781.5 points, 33 votes, 2 first place)
8. WALL·E (800.5 points, 37 votes, 1 first place)
7. Inglourious Basterds (982 points, 38 votes)
6. Spirited Away (1111.5 points, 43 votes, 3 first place)
5. There Will Be Blood (1187 points, 42 votes, 3 first place)
4. No Country For Old Men (1314 points, 52 votes, 1 first place)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (1348 points, 47 votes, 6 first place)
2. Children of Men (1401 points, 50 votes, 5 first place)
1. Mulholland Drive (2000 points, 63 votes, 17 first place)

this was fun. omar u rock

-_-

lowest ranking film w/double digit votes:

super troopers (119 pts, 10 votes)

Children of Men blows, what the fuck is the matter with you people.

lol, blow it out your bad-taste hole.

btw the very last ballot at the end of voting changed the top 100, putting in 'capturing the friedmans' and knocking out 'iron man'.

I'm sorry I missed this thread today

"when i watched, seemed to me that from the moment naomi watts showed up onscreen, until she goes to that audition, the acting was so obviously, intentionally terrible"

I thought this was intentional, to amplify the sense of success the starlet was destined to achieve. It was a shock to see how differently (and better) she acted during the audition than during her prep in the kitchen

the contrast between the audition rehearsal and the audition is one of the many v great things abt that movie

And the intensity -- the life -- we see in that audition scene is the same we see in the second half of the film.

is this the biggest thread in ILX history?

to me the second half of Mulholland Drive was the reality of failed success in hollywood (played as dream/nightmare) as the flip-side of the fairytale success of the first half

yeah, it was a really mindblowing moment - something i'd never seen in a movie before. xxp

failure to succeed*

105 - Songs From the Second Floor (198 points, 7 votes, 1 first place)

Hey, sorry, both me and Tuomas have said that we put this as our number one - did you just get the first place numbers wrong or have you got all the numbers wrong for this? Or is Tuomas lying?

Also, I'm well pissed off that I missed the culmination of this thread. MD is a worthy winner, though.

xpost - yes, i have no doubt. when watts changed it wasn't a shock to me, it was a relief since prior to that, the acting was painful to watch, and so bad that i could only hope lynch wasn't going to f*** with the audience by doing a whole 2+ hour film that way.

otherwise, i guess success/failure in hollywood is something i personally care nothing about & have no interest in, you know? like the dinner party, wow it's a bunch of awful people being awful to each other, that's great..
this is just a matter of personal taste

Even if you dismiss the Hollywood stuff, the dinner party sequence is painful to watch. Who hasn't hung around their ex's long after they lost interest in us?

It's summed up in that short scene with Ann Miller, her gnarled hands curling around almonds, beat box music playing in the background.

is this the biggest thread in ILX history?

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:43 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nope. Not yet, at least.

TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST
try glasgow more
Chicago: This Is Grand

could be the biggest thread in ILE history if we try hard enough

Why was I so convinced that LOTR: The Return of the King would show up? (This is why I thought City of God was out of the running.) Personally, I don't give a shit about any of them, but I didn't realize that the first one was supposed to be the best. Maybe I got fooled by the Oscar.

yeah i hear you alfred, but in this case my perception was that their relationship didn't seem real to begin with. it's another thing that strikes me with lynch, none of the women in his films seem like real people, honestly, they have a very limited range of behavior, they mostly react to things, they're hesitant and scared a whole lot, they're actresses, hookers, waitresses, entertainers, and sometimes pretty grotesque..

Highest-ranked movie I've never seen: Cache.

like he can't write women characters who are real people. he just can't do it. maybe he isn't trying, i don't know.

Also, bravo, Omar. ^_^

Ta very much, omar. I'm going to be suffering from post-poll withdrawal now, I'm sure.

Any chance that you could list the rest of the top 200? I'm v. curious where some stuff fell.

I've seen only 67 of these. Inglourious Basterds is the highest one I haven't seen.

fwiw his characters are generally not too real - tho i feel u on the particularities of his female types xp

I'm sensitive to your response, daria. But Lynch gets away with it because he finds actress able to make these stereotypes hum, hurt, and feel with an intensity that none of the men surpass. Even if you accept (as I do) that Dorothy Valens, Laura Palmer, Rita, and Diane/Betty represent variations on the Mystery Lady, Vamp, and Virgin, they suggest more life than the guys/women they're fucking. Plus, in a Lynch film character matters less than a human being's response to certain psychological and emotional stimuli. He reminds us that we're not men or women, but animals, and not particularly sensible ones.

*he finds actresses

damn u dudes like mulldr a whole lot

rachel maddow is interviewing quentin tarantino on tonight's show for some reason

about this?

mhd is a lock for #1 tho guys we can all agree on that rite

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 11:26 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^winner

haha xp

hey emily, actually you're right, 'songs from the second floor' did receive 2 first place votes. all the points were counted, i just neglected to put the 2nd first place vote in that column...

quentin, why do you think dr morbz hates you so bad, whats up w/that guy?

Thanks, omar. Thought that the point count looked about right from people talking about it, but I knew there was more than one first place voter. I actually thought sarahel had put it first, too, but apparently she put it second. It really should have placed, damn you all.

anyway, their responses are generally not ones that i can relate to & frequently echo to me times when i see some women behaving in ways where.. i just want to kinda shake them & say, for god's sake, don't be (or don't act!) helpless and dumb and childlike (or jealous and bitchy) because that's how some men expect you to behave. when the range of expression is limited to that.. idk, it's frustrating. still thinking about it here..

http://i47.tinypic.com/skzswz.jpg

what is his deal...